Baxter v. Bank of Grantville

“There is no matter of public policy more firmly fixed in this State than that which outlaws a contract of suretyship on the part of a wife in behalf of her husband, or the payment by the wife of any debt of her husband from the proceeds of her separate estate.” “A wife may recover her money which has been paid to a creditor of her husband in extinguishing his debt, even in a cash sale, with her funds, . . and where a wife executes a deed conveying her real estate to a creditor of her husband, she may, upon proof of the fact, proceed to rescind and annul the contract successfully and reassert…